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On 8/9/2017 10:06 AM, notbob wrote:
> On 2017-08-09, jmcquown > wrote:
>
>> I was one of those "office workers" you seem to deplore. We had pot
>> lucks frequently. The company provided the meat, the employees brought
>> the side dishes. Desserts (store bought pies and cakes) seemed to be
>> most common.

>
> I gave up on "work" pot lucks cuz everyone brought store-bought junk
> or worse. What's worse? Take-out pizza, take-out Chinese, Chicken
> buckets, etc. It was like nobody knew how to cook.


Probably 50% don't know how, 49% are too lazy to do it.

>
> The only dish I ever saw that was home-cooked was some mamasita baked
> two(2) goats heads for the Holloween pot-luck. She even put the
> eyeballs back in. Those heads were scary, to be sure, but myself and
> my Vietnamese engineer buddy loved every bit. We ate the flesh,
> mostly from the head (cabeza), and had both heads to ourselves.
> Mmmmmm..... Good eats!
>
> Now, our local pot-lucks are all home cooked. My mac n' cheese is a
> requested dish.
>
> nb
>


The goat head sounds good. I'd pass on the eyeballs but the cheek meat
would be good.